Word: vertigoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pilot one of the early Gemini flights, Shepard was dropped from space flight and barred even from flying except when accompanied by another pilot. Reason: he was plagued by Meniere's syndrome, a puzzling disturbance of the inner ear, possibly caused by a buildup of fluids, that produces vertigo, nausea and ringing noises. An able, no-nonsense administrator, Shepard was made chief of the Astronaut Office in Houston. But his longing for the launch pad remained. In 1968, on his own insistence, he underwent a complex ear operation (involving implantation of a thin, one-inch-long drain tube). When...